Tag: Der Spiegel

  • The Internet in the Middle East and Arab World

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Keeping with the unplanned theme of this week, i.e. things going on in the Middle East and Arab world, let’s take a look at another piece of work from Spiegel. Unfortunately, this one is not so much in English. The graphics, yes, the supporting context, no. There are seven of them, this looks at what…

  • Organising and Structuring ISIS

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Yesterday we looked at the Russian sale of advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran. Let’s stay in the Middle East and look at one of the forces that Iran—among many others, the US included—is fighting: ISIS, or Islamic State.  We all know it from its ruthless, zealous, brutal application of Islamic law to the territories it…

  • It’s Hard to be a Saint in Hell

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Perhaps the 21st century version of the Pentagon papers, the ‘War Logs’, as they are being called, consist of some 90,000 classified documents centring on the Afghanistan War. While they do not paint a necessarily different picture from what is known publicly, the War Logs do provide interesting glimpses into the war, a war that,…